How to Install PHP-Fusion 9 on a Debian 8 VPS

This step by step tutorial will show you how to install PHP-Fusion 9 on a Debian 8 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. PHP-Fusion is fast and light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. PHP-Fusion 9 includes common features found in other content management systems. By comparing it with the PHP-Fusion 7 version, there are some new features, such as a fully integrated and comprehensive SEO engine, full core support for Multilingual content, PDO support, Bootstrap support, new themes etc. PHP-Fusion comes with a simple but comprehensive administration system.

This tutorial was tested and written for a Debian 8 VPS, but it should work on any Linux distribution.

Let’s start with the installation. Download the latest PHP-Fusion 9 version available at https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion to a directory on your server and extract it using the following commands:

Set the proper file permissions for the Apache web server to write to ‘administration/db_backups’, ‘ftp_upload’ and ‘images’ directories and ‘images/imagelist.js’, ‘images/avatars’, ‘config_temp.php’ and ‘robots.txt’ files inside the /var/www/html/php-fusion/ directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/php-fusion/

Enable the Apache2 rewrite module if it is not already done so:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:

service apache2 restart

Create a new MySQL database for PHP-Fusion to use and assign a user to it with full permissions:

Do not forget to replace ‘your-password’ with a strong password.
Open your favorite web browser, navigate to http://your-domain.com and follow the easy instructions, then log in to the PHP-Fusion administrator back-end and configure it according to your needs.

That is it. The PHP-Fusion installation is now complete.
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